Animation house Sixty40 forms alliance with post production house Heckler as Sixty40@Heckler

Award-winning animation company Sixty40 is working alongside the 2012 Hotshop Awards post production company of the year, Heckler.

The new collaboration has already begun delivering work from the headquarters at the former Paramount Pictures Building in Surry Hills, Sydney. The new arrangement enables a significant expansion in the creative services offered by both houses.

Sixty40's creative director Mark Simpson said it was a coming of age for the animation company.

Says
Simpson: "After celebrating 12 years of building solid business, this
move allows Sixty40 to extend it's ability to not only produce beautiful
animation, but to do so with the attention to detail, sheer processing
power and creative vision that Heckler has become renowned for."

The
team driving the alliance will include, amongst others, Heckler's
producer Bonnie Law and executive producer Will Alexander, who said he
had always been a huge fan.

Says Alexander: "When this
opportunity presented itself I jumped in with both feet. Sixty40 have an
amazingly diverse range of styles and techniques and is world class in
character animation and content creation. It's an exciting new
partnership and I can't wait to start delivering some next level
animation."

Projects already include an animated short film for
Qantas via Houston that screened at the recent Qantas birthday gala
event and the forthcoming Incredibly Short Film Festival (ISFF). The
ISFF is a curated festival of looping animation from around the globe by
Mark Simpson, accompanied by live looping audio performed in situ by
some of Australia's hottest recording artists.

The ISFF will
celebrate its international debut at this years Vivid Festival,
screening at the MCA on May 31. Online magazine Concrete Playground
recently listed it as Number #3 on its Top 10 Ideas at Vivid Ideas. It
will then move to Sydney's beating heart, projected in, on and around
buildings in Kings Cross. Following that, The ISFF will screen as part
of PauseFest Croatia: a digital media conference at which Simpson is
presenting and moderating.

Simpson said that they had already demonstrated the combined force could create fantastic work and would continue to do so.

Says
Simpson: "The idea of Sixty40's character animation and content
creation experience for agencies combined with Heckler's resources,
studio and team is exhilarating. From now on, the question of going
overseas for world-class character design and animation is over. We are
combining local and international character designers and directors
with the best production facility in Australia. Sixty40 @ Heckler.
Done."